As much as I would like to be a stoic, for the lone reason that their philosophy is based on living in the moment and living for today not thinking about tomorrow I feel that as I get older I am slowly leading towards an Epicurean point of view. When your younger I believe you tend to look for short-term happiness because as a teenager you realize that no one is immortal and one day you'll have to act like a grown up. However towards the end of high school adults, teachers or parents, make it clear that you can't only focus on the short-term because in the end you won't be prepared for life. An adult tries to plan ahead and for the future. They want to make sure that when they reach a certain age they won't have any worries of any kind and be set for the rest of their life. I think that this dimension of age also plays a role in whether people will have an epicurean point of view on life or a stoics.
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Don't confuse Stoicism with short term happiness. Stoics do not concern themselves with happiness.
ReplyDeleteA Stoic will always do his / her homework. Not doing so would suggest what happens in life is random and meaningless, not rational and for a good reason. Stoics firmly believe that whatever life throws at them is meant to be, so they accept it--period. If a Stoic's teacher assigns 200 pages of Pre-Cal work, he'd do his best to finish it. Whether it gets done or not, however, isn't too important. It's more about the attitude toward doing the work.
Stoics can and do have long term goals. However, they don't allow their happiness to be tied to the achievement of those goals. In fact, they don't hold a lot of stock in happiness at all--happiness comes and goes all of the time, and it always will. This is the critical difference. They take each day as it comes. Now, which philosophy makes more sense to you?
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